Young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like their parents.
[CER] How are you like, but not exactly like your parents and siblings?
Make a claim. Provide your evidence and justify your reasoning |
/ Ii / INvestigate
1. Characteristic Patterns - Investigate how scientists use patterns to study the similarities and differences among things.
2. An Inventory of my traits - take an inventory of your own easily observable genetic traits and analyze how your trait inventories differ from those of others. 3. Plants Have Genes, Too! - investigate the color leaves you will observe on the offspring of two green parent plants. 4. Heredity Hero - investigate your family member's traits to identify patterns about which traits are inherited or not. |
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During this lesson you will learn more about how characteristics of one generation are related to the previous generation.
✎Notes:
- Organisms have characteristics that can be similar or different.
- Young animals are very much, but not exactly, like their parents and also resemble other animals of the same kind.
- Plants also are very much, but not exactly, like their parents and resemble other plants of the same kind.
/ IV / choose your path
FREE PLAY [+1 point]
Reflect on this topic any way you wish. NOVICE [+2 points]
These particular puppies look like their parent but they are not exactly the same. Describe 4 or more similarities and differences in features that these particular dogs have that is evidence young animals are very similar, but not exactly the same as their parents. |
/ v / Knowledge Check
These two mature daylilies were cross-pollinated and each plant produced seeds.
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✓ MASTERY CHECK
National Research Council 2012. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13165
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LS3.A, 1-LS3-1
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. (Patterns) [1-LS3-1]
This site contains original content that may not be authorized for use by the creator and is legally used under the fair use principles section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1986 (17 U.S. Code § 107)
The official NGSS website. https://www.nextgenscience.org
LS3.A, 1-LS3-1
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. (Patterns) [1-LS3-1]